job – English noun declension

English noun forms of job

Noun: job
Singularjob
Pluraljobs

Sample Sentences

  • I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
  • I didn't speak to many coworkers for the first year on the job.
  • And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang. [1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire:]
  • That surgeon has a great job.
  • He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
  • I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now [1984, Johnny Marr & Morrissey, “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now”, in Hatful of Hollow, performed by The Smiths:]
  • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector. [2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • Here I am at my new job! [2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
  • He had a nose job.
  • hand job
  • You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing. [2000 August 6, “Easy Come, Easy Go”, in Sex and the City, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:]
  • a bank job
  • This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough! [2010, J. Lamar, Honor, Deception and Justice, page 53:]
  • Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
  • One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […] [1936, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Warehousemen's Association, volume 45, page 376:]
  • “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.” [2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans):]
  • But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together. [2018 July 24, Chris Merritt, Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down:]
  • “I’m job, DS Townsend. I have to report a missing person.” [2022 February 9, Daragh Carville, Richard Clark, Furquan Akhtar, 01:33 from the start, in The Bay, season 3, episode 5, spoken by DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason):]

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop. See: Middle English Nouns 'gobbe', Middle English Nouns 'choppe'.

Verbs referencing "job"

Danish Nouns job, Dutch Nouns job, French Nouns job, Italian Nouns job, English Nouns jab, Irish Nouns jab, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns jobb, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns jobb, Swedish Nouns jobb, Finnish Nouns jopi.